Her iced cupcakes ($2.75 and $3.25), especially the chocolate ones, are tender, rich and light.
"Having children, I have more in common with straight parents than I did with my gay friends who had no kids," said Mr. Strah, as his mother and sister iced cupcakes on a picnic table.
As the kids arrived for the party, they each brought a treat: heart-shaped cookies, Necco hearts, Hershey's Kisses, pink-iced cupcakes.
This year, pastry shops and famous bakeries everywhere will make lavender-iced cupcakes to support the cause.
Now I'm no prude, and Hardy is a self-described "hedonist, raconteur and bon vivant", but the piece, which also made repeated references to Hardy's seductive consumption of a green-iced vegan cupcake, left me with an intensely uncomfortable feeling.
After you've baked and iced the cupcakes, use a line of candies to make the butterfly's body, then stick two pretzel "wings" on either side.
To feed a class of 7-year-olds, we yielded to the inevitable appeal of cupcakes, iced and decorated with Christmas sprinkles.
Miniature iced two-bite cupcakes are tempting enough: a dollop of marshmallow delays the impact of the dark chocolate variety, milk chocolate frosting embellishes vanilla cupcakes, and a swirl of cream cheese bolsters red velvet ones ($2 each).
She worked as a secretary for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, but her true calling was being a mother, Ms. Powell said; she attended every soccer game, made iced tea and cupcakes, took rolls of photographs.
Instead of a storefront, it has just a hanging sign and a narrow flight of stairs up to a no-frills kitchen, office and counter where dozens of cupcakes with iced topknots are displayed.
